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2293338 - Error 'No Country/Region Version for ABC Exists In ERM' Occurs When Creating Expense Arrangement

Symptom

When creating an expense arrangement for country DEF, error message 'No country/region version for DEF exists in ERM.' appears.

(DEF refers to country name)

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Travel and Expenses work center.
  2. Go to the Expense Arrangements view.
  3. Create a new expense arrangement for an employee from country DEF.

You can see the error message: No country/region version for DEF exists in ERM.

Cause

In the current ByDesign version, it is not possible to directly create expense arrangements for other countries than standard countries.

Resolution

As a workaround, you can create your own country version for DEF via Generic Country Version.

You have to scope the scoping question "Do you want to use the generic country version for Expense and Reimbursement Management?"
You can follow the below steps:

  1. Go to the Business Configuration Work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Show All Current Projects and Find Project and Choose "Edit Project Scope".
  4. Go to the Questions.
  5. Go to the Travel and Expenses Work center>Expense and Reimburse management>Expense reporting.
  6. Select the checkbox against this question.

You have to create a new country version by following the below steps :

  1. Go to the Business Configuration Work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Select the Project and Choose Fine Tune Activity List.
  4. Show All Activities and Find Activity "Create New Country/Region Version".
  5. Create a new country version and save it.
  6. Show All Activities and Find Activity "Expense Reporting - Generic Country Version"
  7. You can configure the Expense types, Per diems,Expense Reimbursement groups and all required field according to your requirement.

Keywords

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions